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Billy Don Hutchens
Billy Don Hutchens, 65, of Goree died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, at Hospice of Wichita Falls.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, at the Goree First Baptist Church, with Rev. Royce Denton and Rev. Jimmy Rogers officiating. Burial will be in the Goree cemetery under the direction of McCauley-Smith Funeral Home in Munday.
Mr. Hutchens was born Sept. 6, 1942, in Goree. He was a lifetime resident of Goree, a member of the Goree First Baptist Church and a veteran of the U.S. Army. He married
Mary Martinez June 20, 1964, in Goree. She died Feb. 10, 1986; he married
Mary Lewis Feb. 18, 1989, in Goree.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Hutchens of Goree; two daughters, Pamela Lawson of Levelland and Stacy Westbrook and husband Wes of Shallowater; one son, Billy Jay Hutchens of Graham; one step-daughter, Cathy Cooper of Euless; two sisters; five brothers; eight grandchildren; and two great- grandchildren.
Richard D. DeArment
Richard D. DeArment, 88, of Wheeler died Sept. 5, 2007, in Amarillo. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, in the First United Methodist Church in Wheeler, with Rev. Ernie McGaughey of Tulia, and Rev. Tom Woodward, Pastor of First United Methodist Church in Wheeler, officiating. Burial will be in the Wheeler cemetery under the direction of Wright Funeral Home in Wheeler.
Mr. DeArment was born May 16, 1919, to Roy and Merrill Griswald DeArment. He served in World War II in the Army Air Corporation as a B-24 Bomber Pilot. Richard graduated from Texas A & M and received a Masters Degree from OSU. He moved to Wheeler in 1952. He retired from Texas Parks and Wildlife in 1986. Mr. DeArment was active for many years in the showing of the Lesser Prairie Chicken, he served as a member of the Wheeler Volunteer Fire Department, and he was a member of the Audobon Society.
Survivors include his wife, Jerene DeArment of Amarillo; one son, Rick DeArment of Lovington, N.M.; one daughter, Dixie Chick of Amarillo; two step sons, Kevin Dawson of Amarillo and Keith Dawson of Colorado Springs, Colo.; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and one brother, Harold DeArment of St. Petersburg, Fla.
Ken Porter
A memorial service for James Kendrick "Ken" Porter will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, at LakeRidge United Methodist Church in Lubbock. The family will receive friends on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at Sanders Funeral Home.
After a long courageous fight with cancer, James Kendrick "Ken" Porter passed from this life on Sept. 6 at home. He was a beloved son, husband, brother, father and friend to so many. Ken was born to James L. and Tommie (Matthews) Porter on Aug. 20, 1955, in Lubbock. He graduated from Monterey High School in 1973, where he served as drum major of the Monterey band. In 1977, he graduated from Texas Tech where he was active in the Goin Band From Raiderland and met Cyndy Herrmann. They married
June 21, 1980 and enjoyed raising beloved daughters, Hillary and Hannah.
Ken was associated with Don's Photography, Texas Instruments, Longhorn Gasket and Plains Cotton Enterprises before devoting himself to his passion for photography. He owned and operated K. Porter Photography from 1990 until his death. Ken was able to share his wit and talent through the creation of untold number of precious photographic memories for his many customers and friends. He received a variety of professional honors and awards, including a Craftsman degree in Photography. He was active in the Professional Photographers of America as well as the state (TPPA) and local (SPPPA) affiliates.
Additionally, Ken was able to share his love of music through his association with the Texas Tech Goin Band, serving as a photographer for the band, as well as a bus sponsor along with his wife. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Goin Band Association in 1986. Ken also enjoyed playing his saxophone in LakeRidge UMC's Instruments of Praise. Ken was a member of LakeRidge United Methodist Church and Bible Study Sunday School Class, Southwest Rotary and the Lubbock Colon Cancer Prevention Task Force.
He particularly enjoyed traveling with his family and riding his motorcycle with friends.
Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Cyndy of Lubbock; daughters, Hillary Porter and Hannah Porter, both of Lubbock; parents, James and Tommie Porter of Lubbock; brother, Kerry Porter and wife Pam of Plano; nephews, Austin and Addison Porter and niece, Ashley Porter, all of Plano; and numerous friends and associates.
The family suggests memorials to the Goin Band Association, P.O. Box 64424, Lubbock, TX 79464-4424, In behalf of Ken Porter; LakeRidge UMC Instruments of Praise, 4701 82nd St., Lubbock, TX 79424 or the American Cancer Society.
Frances Mayhugh Holden
Frances Mayhugh Holden died Monday, August 20, 2007. She was born near Running Water, Texas (Hale County) and graduated from Plainview High School and Texas Technological College. She married
Curry Holden in 1939 and together they were influential in creating the National Ranching Heritage Center, Texas Tech Museum and Southwest Collections. She passed peacefully on Monday after a visit from her stepdaughter and family.
Visitation will be at Rix Funeral Directors, 1901 Broadway, at 1 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 24th, followed by a graveside service at the City of Lubbock cemetery. A memorial service and reception will follow at 3 p.m. in St. John's Methodist Church, 1501 University Avenue.
Frances is survived by her step-daughter, Jane Holden Kelley and her husband, David Kelley; her grandchildren Becky, Dennis and Megan Kelley, and her great-grandchildren Heather Kelley and Thomas and Christopher Scherer, as well as her brother Roger Pat Mayhugh. The family wishes to extend thanks to the staff at the Garrison Center for the excellent care that Fran received in recent years.
Dr. Felix C. Crawford
Dr. Felix C. Crawford, DDS, the Texas Dental Association's 119th president (1988-1989), was born in Midland, Texas on Jan. 11, 1938.
He passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007 in Lubbock. His father, Marshall Crawford, was a Firestone tire dealer and owned a home and auto supply.
The family business was moved to Lamesa, Texas in 1942. There, his mother, Lela Mary Crawford, worked in the Dawson County District Court
House as a deputy tax collector. Dr. Crawford attended the Lamesa public schools and began to consider various professions for a life career. The family dentist, Dr. H.M. Strover, encouraged him to consider dentistry, and influence that led to the decision to attend college to major in pre-dentistry.
He attended Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, followed by the University of Texas Dental Branch in Houston (UTDB) where he graduated in 1963. Stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado.
Felix served two years in the U.S. Army after graduation from UTBD. He then began dental practice in Plainview, Texas in 1965.
Dr. Crawford is married
to Dr. Marian Perry Crawford, and educator. He has two children, a daughter, Christin Kay Gray and her husband Floyd Eric of Mansfield, Texas, and a son, Boyd William Crawford and his wife April of Mansfield, Texas. He is also survived by two stepsons, Ross and Lee Perry; three grandchildren, Austin Crawford, Blake Crawford, and Dillon Gray all of Mansfield; one sister, Camilla Young of Chalfont, Pa.; and a brother, Marshall Crawford of Houston.
Community service for Dr. Crawford included presidencies of the Plainview Chamber of Commerce, the Plainview Country Club, the Plainview Rotary Club, and the Plainview Toastmasters Club, as well as chairman of the Plainview-Hale County Board of Health and secretary of staff of the former Central Plains Regional Hospital. He has also served as coach for YMCA soccer, tiger league football, and little league baseball, as well as president of the Edgemere PTA.
Dr. Crawford served as president of his local South Plains District Dental Society in 1979-1980. At the state level, he was a delegate to the TDA House of Delegates. He was a member of the Texas Dental Association's (TDA) Council on Legislative Affairs and chaired DENPAC (state political action committee) from 1982-1989. After service on the TDA Board of Directors, Dr. Crawford was elected president of the TDA for 1988-1989.
In Addition to his other service, Dr. Crawford was also instrumental in the establishment in 1990 of the Texas Dental Association Foundation to promote advancement of health care through continuing education for Texas dentists.
Dr. Crawford was a delegate to the ADA House of Delegates, and a member of the original ADA Committee on Chemical Dependency Issues. He was the national ADPAC chairman for two years. He served as Second Vice President of the American Dental Association, 2001-2002.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, 2007 at First United Methodist Church with Dr. Lewis Holland and Dr. Max Browning officiating. Burial will follow in Plainview Memorial Park under the direction of Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview.
A visitation will be held on Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kornerstone Funeral Directors.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials can be made to the Felix Crawford Endowment Fund of Texas Dentists Association, Smiles Foundation, 1946 S IH-35 Ste 300, Austin, Texas 78704.
Ralph Elmer Maurer, MD.
Dr. Ralph Elmer Maurer, a prominent physician and surgeon in Littlefield for over 60 years, died on Feb. 23rd, at the Lamb Healthcare Center after a short illness. He was 99.
Dr. Maurer was born on Nov.15, 1907, in the Austria-Hungarian town of Zborov, which is now part of Ukraine. His father was a businessman and landowner.
Worried about the political turmoil in the region, Dr. Maurer's father immigrated to the United States in advance of the family in 1913. The following year, World War I broke out, preventing the rest of the family from joining the elder Maurer in New York City.
The war raged around Dr. Maurer during his boyhood years, when he lived along the fluctuating eastern front. In late 1915, German and Austrian armies forced the Russian army to withdraw to a line near his town. Dr. Maurer remembered the Russians digging defensive trenches through his family's land, about a hundred yards from their house. He and his brother played in the trenches and once constructed a slingshot and used it to shoot rocks at Russian soldiers.
After the war, the family left by wagon for the nearest train line, where they got transportation to Rotterdam and from there to the United States by steamship. Arriving in New York City in August 1920, Dr. Maurer was 12 years old and spoke no English. He learned the language quickly in school and went on to attend DeWitt Clinton High School and New York University.
In 1929, he returned to Europe to study medicine; first, at the University of Berlin, where he witnessed the rise of the Nazi party, and later at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where he earned his M.D. degree in 1937. He returned to New York, where he held internships at Kings County Hospital and Doctors Hospital.
In 1938, he moved to Virginia to accept a residency in general surgery at Lynchburg General Hospital. In Lynchburg, he met Ethel Virginia Tweedy, whom he married
in 1942. That year he was inducted into the United States Army Medical Service. Assigned to the 300th General Hospital of the 5th Army, he participated in the North Africa campaign, the invasion of Italy, the battle of Anzio, and he was preparing for the invasion of Japan when World War II ended. He rose to the rank of captain.
On leaving military service, he accepted a position at the Payne-Shotwell Hospital in Littlefield. He recalled arriving on the last day of 1945, during a blinding sand storm. He stayed and practiced medicine until he retired in 1993. In the early 1950s, he became an owner-partner of the hospital, which was renamed Medical Arts Hospital and Clinic.
Dr. Maurer's specialty was general surgery, particularly orthopedic cases. During World War II, he learned new orthopedic surgical techniques from a German surgeon in a captured field hospital. He applied this knowledge to improving the care of Allied soldiers, and later brought these innovative procedures to the South Plains.
He was an avid bicyclist and loved golf. After he retired, he became an investor. He traveled extensively with his family, returning to Virginia every summer during the 1950s and 60s to spend time on the farm where his wife grew up. He believed fervently in the value of a good education.
Dr. Maurer is survived by his wife, Ethel; his son, Robert of Richardson; his son, Richard and daughter-in-law Susan Marsh of Holden, Mass.; his daughter, Ginger and son-in-law Jerzy Kaminski of Exeter, N.H.; his daughter, Rachel of Albuquerque, N.M.; and his daughter-in-law, Virginia G. Maurer of Gainesville, Fla. He has six grandsons. His oldest son, Ralph Gerald, preceded him in death on May 12, 2006.
A memorial service will be held at the First Presbyterian Church of Littlefield on Saturday, March 3rd, at 2 pm. Cremation is under the direction of Hammons Funeral Home in Littlefield.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Dr. Maurer's memory to Lamb Healthcare Center Foundation, 1500 South Sunset, Littlefield, Texas 79339.
Bettye Jo (Jo) Carr
Bettye Jo (Jo) Carr of Lubbock, 80, died at home on July 7, 2007 in the company of loved ones. The memorial service will be held Monday, July 9 at 4 p.m. at St. John's United Methodist Church, 1501 University Ave, Lubbock.
Jo was born 9/29/26 in Greenville, Mississippi, only child of Joseph Neal Crisler and Bessie Esther Gilley Crisler. After graduating from Texas Tech she worked as a professional Girl Scout in the Texas Panhandle area. Jo spent 5 years with the Methodist Mission service in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), where children Michael and Glenna were born.
A single parent for many years, she supported her family with free lance writing. She wrote curricular materials for the Methodist Church Publishing House in Nashville, several devotional books with Imogene Sorley, and advent calendars with both Sorley and Donna Cash. After a short time teaching in the Texas Tech English Department, Jo entered the Methodist Ministry. She served at St. John's United Methodist Church in Lubbock, and in Methodist churches in Cooper, Levelland and Crosbyton; ending as District Superintendent of the Methodist Church in the Pampa District.
Jo was enthusiastically interested in life. She took three of her five children on a bicycle trip to Europe, was a longtime Girl Scout leader and received a special award as Outstanding Girl Scout in 1997 from the South Plains Caprock Council. She insisted that each child know how to change a flat tire, swim, cook a basic meal and use a jigsaw. A devoted reader, she traded books with friends and family.
She retired to Lubbock where she enjoyed gardening and became a Master Gardener and Composter. She loved crafts and her quilting group. Jo loved and was loved by many.
Survivors include her children Catherine Ann Carr, Michael Joseph Carr, Glenna Faye Dunnington, Rebecca Jo Barnebey and Douglas Galen Carr. Grandchildren include Benjamin Shaktinath Carr, Timothy Scott Dunnington, John Andrew Dunnington, David Joel Dunnington, Matthew Skelton Barnebey, and Elizabeth Irene Carr.
The family suggests that donations go to Hospice of Lubbock, the Lubbock Food Bank, or St. John's United Methodist Church.
